Death Valley National Park 4x4 and Back Country Roads Cave Rock Spring Road is a remote, roughly 12-mile one-way dirt 4WD spur in the Nevada Triangle portion of Death Valley National Park (and adjacent public lands), near Rhyolite and the Bullfrog Hills. Trail / Road Description Access begins near the Bullfrog turnoff on Rhyolite Road (between Nevada Highway 374 and the Rhyolite ghost town).

Old Railroad Grade Road (and the related historic LV&T grades near Rhyolite) follows remnants of early-1900s railroad beds in the Nevada Triangle portion of Death Valley National Park and adjacent public land near the Rhyolite ghost town and Beatty, Nevada. Trail Description The named Old Railroad Grade Road is a short, relatively easy ~4.1-mile full-width dirt/two-track route near Beatty. The western section is well-graded and wide; farther along it transitions to rockier two-track with some washout transitions (one a bit more pronounced).

Death Valley National Park 4x4 and Back Country Roads Phinney Canyon Road is a remote backcountry dirt road in the “Nevada Triangle” portion of Death Valley National Park, in the Grapevine Mountains north of Rhyolite and Beatty, Nevada. History of Phinney Canyon and Its Connection to Rhyolite Phinney Canyon lies in the Grapevine Mountains within the broader Bullfrog Mining District, the same district that produced the famous Rhyolite boomtown a few miles to the south.

Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BGRR) Engine No. 54 was a Baldwin-built 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive that served the short-lived Nevada mining railroad connecting the Bullfrog District (Rhyolite/Beatty area) with Goldfield during the early 20th-century gold boom.

Death Valley National Park 4x4 and Back Country Roads McDonald Spring Road is a roughly 12-mile one-way dirt 4WD route in the Nevada Triangle portion of Death Valley National Park (and adjacent public lands), starting near the Bullfrog turnoff on Rhyolite Road between Nevada Highway 374 and the Rhyolite ghost town. It runs through the western Bullfrog Hills into a large wash, then branches; the north fork leads to McDonald Spring (about 11.9 miles), while a south branch continues toward the Hooligan Mine area and Cave Rock Spring (about 12 miles).

Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Engine No. 11 (originally No. 13) was a Baldwin-built 4-6-0 “ten-wheeler” steam locomotive that served the short-lived Nevada mining railroad connecting the Bullfrog District (Rhyolite/Beatty area) with Goldfield during the early-20th-century gold boom, later moving to California service before being scrapped. Bullfrog Goldfield #11, originally #13, built by Baldwin in 1906. Construction and Early Identity Baldwin Locomotive Works built the engine in 1906 as works number 29726.

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Fondée en 1904 et presque entièrement abandonnée une douzaine d'années plus tard, Rhyolite, dans le Nevada, était l'une des nombreuses villes en plein essor éphémères nées dans les dernières années…

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